Chords with lyrics
Tuning: EADGBE
Verse 1:
D MajorD
I heard a sound outside today, a thousand voices all the same
G+G
that cried in vane but can't explain the reasons why they all complain.
D MajorD
We live among the plastic people, population plain and simple,
G+G
turning with a curve, shutting out the windows of the
B minorBm F# minorF#m
world I find so incomplete, where every chess piece that I meet
G+G A augmentedA
will set the record on repeat and matter not at all.
D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G
So, save the fables I've been told, I'm headed for the open road,
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
and going where they're tearing down the walls.
Verse 2:
D MajorD
All along the wind was talking, passed aside a sobbing nothing,
G+G
with his heart taped on his sleeve. Says he has the things I need.
D MajorD
Bad disguise but good advice, he said think twice next time you swipe
G+G
a woman off her feet. She may just fall flat on her face
B minorBm
all painted white, not quite alright.
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There's more than life than that one night
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when Cindarella left you at the ball.
D MajorD G+G
So, here's a lesson in confession,
D MajorD G+G
maybe I just need attention.
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
Take me where they're tearing down the walls.
Verse 3:
D MajorD
Where the armies can't surrender, writing up their final stanza,
G+G
sixth chief commander with a hidden agenda.
D MajorD
In the backward image of a prince who rained on high and ignorance
G+G
while pushing doomsday buttons making puppets out of husbands
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He said the glass may be half empty and these days i'm always thirsty.
G+G A augmentedA
Oxygen's a taste I can't recall.
D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G
While dodging every sidewalk crack, I gave him my reflection back
D MajorD A augmentedA
to take him where they're tearing down the walls.
Verse 4:
D MajorD
Far away where moonlight curls, there danced a ruby peasant girl
G+G
who had a passive style, with a Mona Lisa smile.
D MajorD
And that Sunday skirt she liked to wear that made the preacher stop and stare
G+G
it sure confused her brother and her father never loved her.
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She turned to me while i played dumb and kissed me with a poison tongue.
G+G A augmentedA
She melted as my innocence dissolved.
D MajorD G+G D MajorD G+G
I'm sorry, but I've got to go. The thrill of young loves getting old.
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
You'll find out when we're tearing down the walls.
Verse 5:
D MajorD
The nylon mats beneath the floor that led me to the castle door
G+G
made up of thorns and briers where the wasted time expires
D MajorD
in a thrown room taken from a dream, they executed kings and queens
G+G
for changing all their minds and filling up the caskets with their
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crimes against humanity. They begged for me to set them free.
G+G A augmentedA
I handed them a guillotine that whistles when it falls.
D MajorD G+G
I thanked them with my phony eyes.
D MajorD G+G
I bluffed my hands and said goodbye
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
and headed where they're tearing down the walls.
Verse 6:
D MajorD
When the hours meet the minutes, seconds til I finally finish,
G+G
traveling and tracing when I reached my destination.
D MajorD
There were figures standing by the gate. I realized I'd arrived too late,
G+G
they waited for me as I screamed. The prince, the peasant, king and queen.
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and then of course the sobbing nothing, manifesting into something.
G+G A augmentedA
Thus destroying everything that could have been resolved.
D MajorD G+G
The seasons changed, the wind got colder.
D MajorD G+G
But I said, to starting over.
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
Than I said, to tearing down the walls.
Coda:
D MajorD G+G
So if you want to see some progress,
D MajorD G+G
kindly disreguard your logic.
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
Take me where they're tearing down the walls.
G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
Take me where they're tearing down the walls.